Traffic checkpoint honors late designated driver

1:01 AM,
Nov. 5, 2012

Brooks Rogers was serving as a designated driver when he was killed by a drunk driver last year.

Written by

Sean Rossman
| Democrat staff writer

On a busy Friday night in Tallahassee the family of Brooks Rogers stood on West Tharpe Street just a half of a mile from where Brooks, acting as a designated driver for two friends, was killed by an impaired driver just over a year ago.

The family was assisting Tallahassee police who had set up a safety and sobriety checkpoint in honor of Rogers to detect drivers too impaired to operate a vehicle, vehicles with faulty equipment and those driving without a license.

The family chose the checkpoint to remind drivers of the correct decision of using a designated driver. ...